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Thread #144868   Message #3349791
Posted By: catspaw49
11-May-12 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Carroll Shelby... Sniff...
Subject: RE: Obit: Carroll Shelby... Sniff...
I made a posting on FaceBook........


Carroll Shelby finished his race yesterday. One of the greatest innovators and inventors in racing. Also a pretty fair Chili maker. The Cobra and the Shelby Mustangs are only slightly less iconic than the man himself. Ford racing owes a great debt to the partnership they had with Shelby. Very few like him have come before and I doubt many will come along again. I'd say RIP ...... but that was never his style. Thanks Shel for making it more exciting.

Also, his driving career was cut short by his heart but his engineering skill was always the thing. Too often forgotten also was the GT40 program which succeeded in cleaning Ferrari's clock. What a car that one was............

Spaw